Afterwards by accident we passed a meadow where we found the bodies of twenty-eight officers hung to the trees, with their faces and bodies mutilated.

There we determined never to allow ourselves to come alive into the hands of the Boisheviki.

To prevent this we had our weapons and a supply of cyanide of potassium.
Passing across one branch of the Yenisei, once we saw a narrow, miry pass, the entrance to which was strewn with the bodies of men and horses.

A little farther along we found a broken sleigh with rifled boxes and papers scattered about.

Near them were also torn garments and bodies.